The question
What do you fear most?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Failure, being caught out, making an idiot of myself.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 October 2024 source ↗
Losing consciousness or awareness.
I’m most afraid that someday I’m going to be on an airplane and it’s going to be acting the way I don’t want it to.
To be eaten by a shark.
On my deathbed thinking I wish I would have done something that I didn’t do.
Every time I play tennis I come back with a fresh injury.
Impatience and vanity.
Spirit of adventure and kindness.
Children’s underwear department at Marks & Spencer, Oxford Circus. I was 16 years old, earning money in my summer holidays.
Funny, impatient, annoying.
Professional footballer for Tottenham, or train driver.
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